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M&A Deal Summary

CareerBuilder Acquires CareerBuilder Employment Screening

On March 2, 2016, CareerBuilder acquired staffing company CareerBuilder Employment Screening

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is CareerBuilder’s 6th transaction in the Staffing sector.
  • This is CareerBuilder’s 3rd transaction in the United States.
  • This is CareerBuilder’s 1st transaction in Illinois.
Investment Fate
  • CareerBuilder Employment Screening was divested to a consortium of strategic buyers in 2020.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2016-03-02
Target CareerBuilder Employment Screening
Sector Staffing
Buyer(s) CareerBuilder
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

CareerBuilder Employment Screening

Arlington Heights, Illinois, United States
CareerBuilder Employment Screening LLC is a provider of a remarkably in-depth and accurate background screening, drug screening, selection assessments, and other related HR solutions. CareerBuilder Employment Screening is based in Arlington Heights, Illinois.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

CareerBuilder

Chicago, Illinois, United States
Category Company
Founded 1995
Sector Staffing
Employees2,000
DESCRIPTION

CareerBuilder provides comprehensive online recruiting products and services for job seekers and employers and has uniquely syndicated its trademarked technology and content to create a network of private-label career sites. CareerBuilder was founded in 1995 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 9 of 11
Sector (Staffing) 6 of 6
Type (Add-on Acquisition) 9 of 10
State (Illinois) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 3 of 5
Year (2016) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-07-21 Textkernel

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Textkernel is a software company providing semantic recruitment technology to the global market. Textkernel specializes in semantic recruitment technology providing multilingual CV parsing, job parsing, and semantic search, sourcing, and matching software to help accelerate the process of matching supply and demand in the job market. Textkernel was established in 2001 and is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-09-06 Workterra

Pleasanton, California, United States

Workterra is a fully configurable, easy-to-use benefits administration and enrollment platform built to simplify the growing complexity of benefits for HR and employees. Workterra was founded in 2006 and is based in Pleasanton, California.

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